Vinyl Weed On Mat Or Off

If you ve weeded off quite a large chunk just chop that weeded vinyl off with a pair of scissors this helps keep it from getting in.

Vinyl weed on mat or off. Your vinyl is not peeling cleanly from the paper backing. Use a piece of adhesive vinyl for scraps. Using the cricut brightpad is by far the easiest way. You simply leave your vinyl on the mat after cutting it and weed it directly off the mat.

Adjust cut settings and cut. Next carefully peel the tape off the vinyl backing sheet. If your vinyl came on a roll you can cut off a piece to fit on your mat. Tips for weeding heat transfer vinyl.

Your decal for a customer will not weed cleanly off the backing paper. Check out our silhouette tutorial playlist on youtube. There are many times i am just using a small piece of scrap vinyl. Personally i just pull the vinyl sheet up and cut around my image.

If i weeded it right on the mat my arm would be sticking to it. I find it easiest to weed with my backing material still stuck to my cricut mat. Learn how to remove vinyl and cardstock from your cutting mat. Renown cricket artist kim demonstrates the simple step by step process to weeding your cricut vinyl projects perfectly every time.

This prevents the vinyl adhesive from sticking to the surface for around 30 seconds. The fonts that are easiest to weed will have clean thick lines without any extra little swirls or doodads. You are cutting too deep. When placing your design on the receiving surface you may wish to spray it with some application fluid beforehand.

When you pick up your design with your transfer tape some of the backing rips off and stays on the back of the vinyl. For this method i use the hook weeder which you can get with this cricut tool set. Finally adjust your cut settings to work with the material you are using. If you ve weeded off quite a large chunk just chop that weeded vinyl off with a pair of scissors this helps keep it from getting in the way as you weed the rest of your project.

Weeding using the cricut brightpad. I personally use love and recommend this weeding hook. Sans serif fonts like arial or helvetica will generally be easier than their serif alternative serifs are the little pointy flags at the top and bottom of letters like the red. This keeps my project steady and helps hold down my backing material as i weed the vinyl.

Your design should be safely attached and ready for transfer to the receiving surface. To weed off the excess vinyl you will need some kind of tool. Some people also prefer to weed while the vinyl is still on the cutting mat so it is still stuck down in one place. Keep your material on your mat.

Stencil fonts are really quick to weed because you don t even have to pop out the centers of letters.